After releasing their album “Darkness Rains” last year, Los Angeles dystopian rockers Death Valley Girls are sharing a new standalone single, “Dream Cleaver“, via Suicide Squeeze Records. Based on our current station in our technological age, Death Valley Girls‘ fusion of feral proto-punk, ’70s scuzz dirges, and third eye mysticism is either completely at odds with your worldview or utterly revelatory. Words like “retro” or “old school” convey a starry eyed nostalgia that do a disservice to the band’s harnessing of primal instrumentation and communal reverberations. If something in Death Valley Girls‘ sound harkens to the past, it’s only in an attempt to dislodge us from the static of the present. The video for ...